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Friday – 14th September 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Olumide Popoola’s debut novel When We Speak of Nothing
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend! Stay in this evening and enjoy a glass of wine with …
2018 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award shortlist announced – discovering new South African literary talent
The Jacana Literary Foundation has announced the shortlisted finalists for the 2018 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award.
Join Stephan Hofstatter for the launch of Licence to Loot with Mzukisi Qobo at Love Books
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of Licence to Loot: How the Plunder of Eskom and Other Parastatals Almost Sank South Africa.
Join Barry Gilder and Karabo Kgoleng for dinner at The Troyeville Hotel and the launch of The List
Jacana Media and The Troyeville Hotel invite you to a book discussion and launch of Barry Gilder’s The List.
Out now! Across Boundaries by Ton Vosloo, one of South Africa’s most widely admired newspapermen
Across Boundaries: A Life in the Media at a Time of Change by Ton Vosloo is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Thursday – 13th September 2018
Join Rebecca Davis at the launch of her new book Self-Helpless at The Book Lounge
Pan Macmillan and The Book Lounge invite you to the Cape Town launch of Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity by Rebecca Davis.
Don’t miss Máire Fisher at Love Books for the launch of The Enumerations, with Fiona Snyckers
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of The Enumerations by Máire Fisher, the author of Birdseye.
Stormy Daniels tells her whole story in a new memoir, Full Disclosure
Stormy Daniels will publish a memoir entitled Full Disclosure on October 2, 2018.
Come and taste some of the most viral recipes ever at the launch of Foodies of South Africa in Cape Town
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Foodies of SA by Chantal Botha, Hayley Murison and Julie Brown.
Don’t miss a poetry evening and launch of The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology at the Soweto Theatre
Jacana Media and the European Union are proud to bring you The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology Vol. VIII.
Wednesday – 12th September 2018
Join Simone Haysom and Mandy Wiener for the launch of The Last Words of Rowan du Preez in Johannesburg
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Troyeville Hotel are thrilled to invite you to the launch of The Last Words of Rowan du Preez by Simone Haysom.
Win 1 of 3 copies of Simple PLUS a Cooking School Lifetime bundle from Yuppiechef worth over R3,000
Three winners will each receive a copy of Simple PLUS a Cooking School Lifetime bundle from Yuppiechef worth over R3,000!
Don’t miss a book signing of I am Liza Smit at Exclusive Books Clearwater
Jacana Media invite you to a book signing with Liza Smit and Raquel Lewis, authors of I am Liza Smit.
Peter Bills’s The Jersey: Revealing the secrets behind the world’s most successful rugby team
Written by world-renowned rugby journalist Peter Bills, The Jersey is an exclusive account of how the All Blacks have dominated the game of rugby.
Fear – Bob Woodward’s new exposé reveals chaos in the Trump White House
‘The reality was that the United States in 2017 was tethered to the words and actions of an emotionally overwrought and unstable leader.’
Tuesday – 11th September 2018
Join Annabel Frere and Hilary Biller for the launch of Help! There’s a Guest at My Table
Don’t miss the launch of Annabel Frere’s new cookbook Help! There’s a Guest at My Table.
Don’t miss the launch of Rebecca Davis’s new book Self-Helpless at Love Books
Pan Macmillan and Love Books invite you to the Johannesburg launch of Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity by Rebecca Davis.
Shortlists announced for the University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing
The shortlists for the 2017 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing in English have been announced.
Fiona Snyckers’s new novel, Lacuna – a response to JM Coetzee’s Disgrace from the point of view of Lucy Lurie – to be published by Pan Macmillan
Fiona Snyckers’s new novel, Lacuna, will be published by Pan Macmillan.
Monday – 3rd September 2018
Read an excerpt from Nigerian–American author Tomi Adeyemi’s epic West African fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone
It’s all I can do not to scream. I dig my nails into the marula oak of my staff and squeeze to keep from fidgeting. Beads of sweat drip down my back, but I can’t tell if it’s from dawn’s early heat or from my heart slamming against my chest. Moon after moon I’ve been passed over.